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"I’d forgotten that this was a sequel! To The Secret of Chimneys (great book). We are re-introduced to Lord Caterham, Bundle, Bill Eversleigh, Tredwell, and - of course - Chimneys itself. Which has just had another murder four years after the last one." — 20 hours, 49 min ago
"I’d forgotten that this was a sequel! To The Secret of Chimneys (great book). We are re-introduced to Lord Caterham, Bundle, Bill Eversleigh, Tredwell, and - of course - Chimneys itself. Which has just had another murder four years after the last one." — 20 hours, 49 min ago


“I voted against Brexit. If Neil (the doctor to whom I am married) came home from work and told me he'd lectured a vulnerable Brexiteer patient during treatment about how misguided they were, I'd divorce him in the belief I'd inadvertently married a narcissistic sadist. There are situations in which a person's political or religious beliefs, however much we disagree with them, should be totally irrelevant. No patient or victim seeking treatment for illness or trauma should have the supposed professional's belief system foisted on them.”
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“God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbroken, motherless girls had hoped to be visited by their father. But William was busy at his desk, dreaming up Jack Sheppard.”
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